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“Budapest Diaries” depicts the events of the final year of WWII and the Holocaust of the local Jews as documented in diaries written in real time by the Jews, their persecutors and bystanders. The diaries, written by “ordinary people” document the various perspectives of the persecution of the Jews, the battles that almost destroyed the […] >>
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Jacob de Haan: A Voice Out of Time
The death of Jacob Israel de Haan is commemorated annually by both the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta in Jerusalem and the LGBTQ+ community in Amsterdam. He is a pioneer for both. In the early twentieth century, he published the first LGBTQ novel in the Netherlands. He then returned to his Jewish roots, migrated to […] >>
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“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a short animated dark comedy, set in a wild and crazy world where a little girl struggles to retrieve her lost dog. >>
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Now, When The Waters are Pressing Mightily
A visual version with footage from the Tsunami Disaster. Following the publication of the poem at “The New Yorker” magazine. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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In a dark city, in a fictional world, during an unknown time, on an exceptionally stormy night, Sarah Bennett (Moriah Akons) arrives at the office of Detective Joe (Amit Ullman). She asks him to find her missing sister. Though he knows nothing good will come of it, Joe agrees to open an investigation. The investigation […] >>
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During the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young religious couple from the north of Israel, look for a place to stay to escape the tense situation in their hometown. They find themselves at Yali and Boaz’s bourgeois apartment in Tel Aviv. Due to differences between the couples, conflicts begin to arise. The apartment […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva I have never gone to a hairdresser. My mother is one, so I’ve never had to. For 40 years, her soft fingers have caressed, pinched and cut my hair in styles once fashionable in a distant land. During the lockdown, she cuts my hair from afar. >>
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The Jewish National Fund’s Blue Boxes were part of a successful fundraising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weits, the filmmaker’s grandfather, was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands. Weits’s private diaries reveal an uncomfortable truth. >>
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Shoshana Damari was the first Israeli diva. She graced local and international stages, stirring millions with her beguiling voice and spectacular performance. Yet behind the larger-than-life persona and her memorable songs was a woman about whom we know little. She didn’t like to be interviewed and never volunteered details about herself and her family. Hers […] >>
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Like all good Westerns, Wild West Hebron challenges the ideas of hero and villain. In the often-violent area of Mt. Hebron, a conflict between Palestinians, Israeli settlers, and anti-occupation activists may seem clear-cut, but the journey of one settler defies common preconceptions. Yochanan Sharet, born to a Protestant family in Bavaria, visited Israel as a […] >>
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27-year-old Svetlana is a married woman, a mother, and a registered nurse. 17-year-old Vadim works as a garbage man. Though seemingly very different, the two have a unique passion in common: They participate in a live-action, interactive role playing game set in a forest. Players dress up in medieval costumes and infuse magic into an […] >>
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The following story of Aviv Talmor, a frustrated poet and literature teacher from Tel Aviv, is true…mostly. Aviv is informed that his father whom he had never known, has died, bequeathing him one Israeli lira (less than one penny). Aviv embarks upon a legal battle over his inheritance as part of his brave and painful […] >>
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A luxurious hotel turned absorption center, a place where time has come to a standstill. Eight floors, 700 rooms, 600 people. long corridors, a reception office, a club, green lawns and the vestiges of a pool. The Hotel Diplomat in Jerusalem was once a five-star hotel. For nearly 20 years it is home to 600 […] >>
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